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Research project

Long-term performance of geotechnical transport infrastructure

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Research interests
  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
Connect with William

Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering
Connect with David

Email: djr@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Modelling of stress transfer in root-reinforced soils informed by four-dimensional X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation data
Daniel Bull, Joel Smethurst, Gerrit Meijer, Ian Sinclair, Fabrice Pierron, Tiina Roose, William Powrie & Glyn Bengough, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 478(2257)
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2021.0210
Type: article
Behaviour of discrete piles used to stabilise a tree-covered railway embankment
Joel Smethurst, Nicola Bicocchi, William Powrie & A.S. O'Brien, 2020, Géotechnique, 70(9), 774-790
DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.18.P.150
Type: article
Climate and vegetation impacts on infrastructure cuttings and embankments
William Powrie & Joel Smethurst, 2019
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2221-1_7
Type: conference
Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes
Joel Smethurst, Alister Smith, Sebastian Uhlemann, Chris Wooff, Jonathan Chambers, Paul Hughes, Stanislav Lenart, Haris Saroglou, Sarah Marcella Springman, Hjördis Löfroth & David Hughes, 2017, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(3), 271-286
DOI: 10.1144/qjegh2016-080
Type: article
The influence of tree root water uptake on the long term hydrology of a clay fill railway embankment
K. Briggs, J. A. Smethurst, W. Powrie & A.S. O'Brien, 2016, Transportation Geotechnics, 9, 31-48
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2016.06.001
Type: article